Today I offer a review of yet another, Amendola Family Cigar Company craft. This time it is the Cremoso, one of the three “core blends” Amendola offers. As the year goes on, we will also get into the Amendola Signature Series of cigars. For more reviews and news on Amendola Family Cigars, you can click Read more about Cigar Review: Amendola Family Cigar Co. Cremoso – Rated 91[…]
Founded in 2019, All Saints Fine Cigars, is the brainchild of Micky Pegg and tow of his friends. Micky is best known in the industry as the Davidoff Mid-Atlantic Sales Representative and National Sales Manager for CAO. After departing CAO, Micky took a break and furthered his education and got into the financial planning field. Read more about Cigar Review: All Saints Cigars Dedicación Berkey – Rated 93[…]
Founded in 2013, Dominican Big Leaguer (DBL) Cigars, owned by Francisco Almonte, has grown through the years. During those years, the company has been able to produce some of the finest cigars on the market and now they own tobacco farms, a newly renovated cigar factory, and a cigar box factory all in the Dominican Read more about Cigar Review: Dominican Big Leaguer (DBL) Cigars 35th Anniversary – Rated 92[…]
Here is a new cigar brand that has come across my desk – La Hoja del Chan Cigars. Based out of Puerto Rico, La Hoja del Chan is a small boutique cigar manufacturer that has a mission described on their website as: “…to be able to offer the opportunity to all cigars and tobacco brands Read more about Cigar Review: La Hoja del Chan Cigars El Chan Habano Gran Toro – Rated 86[…]
At this years Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE), Kevin Schweitzer, owner of the Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group (VRCG), introduced a new line extension to his company’s acclaimed Dominican Blue line of cigars. The new extension was a box pressed Churchill of the blend. This new line extension expresses the Dominican Blue blue blend in a (7 Read more about Cigar Review: Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group (VRCG) Dominican Blue Box Pressed Churchill – Rated 94[…]
The year 2020 was one we may want to forget, but one of the bright spots in the cigar industry was the announcement of Davidoff’s latest Chinese New Year series of cigars – The Year of the Ox. This is the tenth introduction in the series since they started in 2011. With just 13,500 ten-count Read more about Cigar Review: Davidoff Year of the Ox – Rated 97[…]
Continuing with the Tabac Trading Co. Trifecta line of cigars, today I present a review of the “Green Label” which uses Brazilian Mata Fina and Indonesian Sumatra wrappers. For this review, I sampled two of the same cigars but smoked each one from a different side to see how it burned and tasted. As in Read more about Cigar Review: Tabac Trading Company Trifecta Brazilian/Sumatra – Rated 91[…]
Geez, what can I say. There is only 7 days left to 2020 and we all know what a shit show of a year this has been. That has not stopped me from sampling cigars and talking about them here on Stogie Press. Although, some of you out there are smoking the year of the Read more about Cigar Review: Drew Estate Year of the Rat 2020 – Rated 95[…]
As part of their fall 2020 release, Southern Draw Cigars included a new Presidente vitola of their acclaimed Jacobs Ladder Brimstone blend. The new line extension, Un Presidente, is not a political statement by any means as it is purely a coincidence that it was being released on the eve of major U.S. elections, but rather Read more about Cigar Review: Southern Draw Jacobs Ladder Brimstone Un Presidente – Rated 96[…]
According to Steve Saka, owner of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, the Muestra De Saka is ‘one the company’s most popular and yet, of their most misunderstood lines’. Steve likes to say the ‘MDS’ brand is the home for some of his best work. It is his ‘personal playground’ and allows him to experiment and create Read more about Cigar Review: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Muestra De Saka Unstolen Valor – Rated 94[…]
Unless you have been living under a rock or truly locked up in a bubble without chatting or Zooming with fellow cigar enthusiasts, you know the quality of Aladino cigars by JRE Tobacco Co. Just in case, allow me to quickly explain who JRE Tobacco Co. is and how they came into being. The best Read more about Cigar Review: Aladino Vintage Selection Rothschild – Rated 94[…]
Earlier this year, ACE Prime and Crowned Heads announced the release of new Luciano Cigar line called: THE DREAMER. It is the second cigar in the line named after the owner and co-founder of Tabacalera Pichardo and Ace Prime, Luciano Meirelles. The Dreamer was inspired by the book, “The Artisan Soul” by Erwin McManus who describes Read more about Cigar Review: ACE Prime Luciano – The Dreamer – Rated 94[…]
Today we take a look at another offering from boutique cigar company, Tabac Trading Co. Patrick Potter, owner of Tabac Trading Co., under the supervision of Master Cigar Maker Ernesto Perez Carrillo of E.P. Carrillo, created HOY VIVO “Live Today.” Paying homage to Ernesto’s Cuban heritage this cigar is as “Cubanesque” as are his methods Read more about Cigar Review: Tabac Trading Co. Hoy Vivo Toro – Rated 91[…]
Micallef Cigars, barely known just a few short years ago, has been growing box by box since their introduction in 2016. One of the many reasons for the company’s growth has been their Ambassador Program which stated back in 2019 and is designed to “bring together a community of cigar enthusiasts who share an admiration Read more about Cigar Review: Micallef Cigars “A” – Rated 90[…]